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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Benjamin Lowy’s Perspectives

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Recently selected by William Eggleston as winner of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Benjamin Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives series is one of my favorite projects I’ve seen this year. A conflict photographer, Lowy began Perspectives in 2005 while covering the war in Iraq, experiencing its landscape mainly through [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #26 SOUNDBITE 03

Monday, March 7, 2011

Finally out later this week: mono.kultur #26.

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SINGING FRANKLY

Sunday, March 6, 2011

‘… get into my car…’ – meet Frank Ocean, hilarious/genius crackpot son of Billy, if you will.

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Animal Kingdom

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Curated by April Lamm short films by Anri Sala, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Fischli/Weiss, Werner Herzog, e.a. are looped into an 2 hour feast for suckers of the animal kingdom.
Animal Kingdom – There Was an Old Lady Who…
05.03. – 03.04.2011
Fri/Sat 7 – 10 pm, Sun 6 – 8 pm
Schinkel Pavillon
Oberwallstrasse 1
10117 Berlin

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KONZERT FÜR ZWÖLF TRAKTOREN

Friday, March 4, 2011

Copenhagen! You lucky people there! You can get up tomorrow morning and go to Charlottenborg Palace (12 o’clock noon). There you’ll be able to witness legendary Sven-Åke Johansson conducting his Concert for Twelve Tractors (1996). He’s been rehearsing with 12 farmers and their John Deeres, Bukhs and Volvos for weeks and tomorrow is the big [...]

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LECTURE ME

Thursday, March 3, 2011

It started off harmlessly enough, my obsession with online lectures. A few TED talks a week between e-mails, until I had gone through the entire TED back-catalog. By then I had grown tired of the format – the applause intro, the smug cleverness of the speakers, the shallow content and short timeframe. TED was intellectualism [...]

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HORSES, TURTLES, PERSIAN CATS. NOW RHINOS.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

News from Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian filmmaker and mono.kultur interviewee from spring 2007. Production of Rhinos Season, his new project begins this March in Turkey. The story will start before the revolution in Iran and end in the present. It will star exiled 1960s-70s’ Iranian megastar Behrouz Vossoughi, who made more than 90 movies in Iran [...]

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SUBCONSCIOUS ART

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Great short film from 2002 by Matt McCormick, narrated by mono.kultur interviewee Miranda July. McCormick’s first feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others will be out this spring, featuring Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag and James Mercer of the Shins and Broken Bells. I like the poster.

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CAPSULE PARIS: MONO.GRAMM A/W 2011

Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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CELEBRATING BOOKS THROUGH (SOME KIND OF) PORN

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

At one day of the announced launch for the so much expected iPad2, print publication seems to be as fit as never before! Printed books related project’s are not only here to stay, as they also seem to multiply every day.
But in case you still doubt it, check this website, totally dedicated to collecting images [...]

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